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marble faces are who?

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Everybody knows those 3 big faces in marble textures right?
MARBFACE, MARBFAC2 and MARBFAC3.
The question is, who are they?
My friend claims that there is a cyberdemon in those but I think that they are:
MARBFACE - End boss from doom2, just some evil ramskull
MARBFAC2 - Archvile
MARBFAC3 - Baron of Hell

Do you agree or not, let me know?

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OOPS!!! I think i was looking at the wrong thing, i see what your talking about. I agree they are.
*SLAPS SELF ON FOREHEAD*

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The MARBFACE also appears in DoomI and represents the 'goat of lust'. I'm sure there are people on DW with more knowlegde of satanism and the occult than me, who could give a detailed discription...
The End Boss in DoomII was most likely modeled after this same symbol.

The MARBFAC2 appeared in DoomI, (probably) before the Archvile was ever invented.

It's just cool looking monster if you ask me...

It could also represent the chaingunner's face (though he wasn't invented either at the time)

The MARBFAC3: Baron of Hell, obviously...

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Yeah, those marbfaces can't be modelled after the icon or archvile as the marbfaces occured first... unless of course the archvile and icon are modelled after the marbfaces themselves?

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I disagree M0l0t0v.

The MARBFAC2 does look like the Arch-Vile. Right down to the four small tubes connecting the cheeks with the jaw.

I guess Adrian came up with the visual idea of the Arch-Vile while looking at this.

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MARBFAC2 always reminded me of Cthulu. Maybe that's just me. Or maybe it's that I've been playing Eternal Darkness lately. Heh.

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Romero said that MARBFAC2 isn't the Arch-Vile, but some demon-alien hybrid that never made it into the game otherwise. Or something to that effect.

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It actually does look like a Lost Soul, only the way it was originally, with skin 'n' stuff. Me thinks of good monster idea.

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at first I always thought MARBFACE was the Cyberdemon
and MARBFAC2 was the Spider Mastermind

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heh

MARBFAC2, before the Archvile, always looked like the Spider Mastermind to me. The enlarged cranium, and the fact that it showed up a bunch in E3M8 and E4M8.

the comparison picture later helped clairify this, but it's interesting to see that the Archvile was already in the works when Doom1 came out.

EDIT: wow, beaten to my MARBFAC2 theory during the 3 minutes typing.

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Lüt said:

[img]http://www.doomworld.com/fredrik/images/archface.png[img]


Looks like a Mancubus to me

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The Merovingian said:

He doesn't post often, but it's always relevant.

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